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| Author: | Detomasi, D.A. |
| Title: | The political roots of corporate social responsibility |
| Journal: | Journal of Business Ethics
2008 : NOV I, VOL. 82:4, p. 807-819 |
| Index terms: | corporate responsibility social responsibility institutions politics strategy markets globalization |
| Freeterms: | CSR activism governance |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It is argued that whether and how a firm makes a choice to adopt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives is conditional in part on the domestic political institutional structures of its home market (henceforth as: h-mt/s). Economic globalization (here as: glbn.) is shown to have increased the pressure applied to companies to develop CSR policies possibly helping overcome specific governance gaps linked with the glbn. phenomenon. It is argued that the political conditions and expectations of a company's h-mt/s. will condition whether a firm might pursue CSR activity. For h-mt/s., the perceived electoral salience is posited to be filtered through government type and ideology, and state/societal structures to influence if and how firms will use CSR etc. |
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